Twelfthtide

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈtwɛlfθtaɪd/    美 /ˈtwɛlfθtaɪd/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The season including Epiphany (the twelfth day after Christmas) and the evening of the preceding day (Twelfth Night), regarded as the end of the Christmas season; Epiphany itself. archaic,obsolete
    — Plough Monday, next after that Twelftide is past, / bids out with the plough, the woorst husband is last. / If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the skreene, / maides loseth their cock if no water be seene.

词形变化

Twelfth tide alternative Twelfth-tide alternative

词源

From twelfth + -tide.
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